Saturday, June 29, 2019


Harry McIntyre, Class of 1961, passed away Thursday, June 27.

His widow, Sharon Kay Campbell McIntyre, is Class of 1963.

Harry lettered all 4 years at Monongah High in football, basketball, baseball and track – a very rare 4-sport athlete. Maybe the only one ever at Monongah High?

Sharon was a majorette at Monongah High.

Harry’s obituary:

Clifford “Harry” McIntyre, 76, of Worthington, passed away on Thursday, June 27, 2019 at his residence. He was born November 11, 1943 in Charleston, a son of the late Clifford Henderson and Lelia Clayton McIntyre.


Harry was a graduate of Monongah High School and played football at Monongah and Fairmont State College.

 

He was a coal miner at Robinson Run #95 mine, having retired with 30 years’ service, and was a member of the UMWA. He was a farmer who enjoyed working in the hayfield, raising cattle, and going to the Amish Country and auctions.

 

He also enjoyed hunting and following the boys’ sports, spending time with daughters and all his grandkids and great grandkids, and especially loved giving Christmas presents to his daughters every Christmas Eve. He was Baptized in the Church of Christ.


Survivors include his wife of 57 years: Sharon Kay Campbell McIntyre, 4 children: Melodie ( Mike) Potoczny, Melinda McDonald, and Clay (Maria) McIntyre, all of Worthington, and Chad (Amanda) McIntyre of Monongah; 9 Grandchildren: Michael (Rachel) Potoczny, Kari (Jason) Woodman, Meagan (Robert) Jeffries, Justin McDonald, Hunter and Tara McIntyre, Danica Malcomb, Yoiner and Nicolle Ceballos; 11 great grandchildren; and a sister: Sylvia (Robert) Duckworth of Shinnston.


Friends may call at the Hutson Funeral Home, 3171 Husky Highway, Farmington on Saturday, June 29, 2019 from 2-8 p.m. where funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday with Mr. Randy Shuttlesworth officiating. Burial will follow at the McIntyre Family Cemetery. Condolences may be accessed at www.hutsonfuneralhomes.com

Another hospital trip for Ron Sanders

Susan Staron Sanders, Class of 1971, reports that husband Ron Sanders had another medical episode that required a journey to the hospital.

I’ll let Monongah’s future Town Councilwoman tell it:

Ron & Susan Sanders
“Good morning family and friends. I wanted to give you an update. I had to call the rescue squad yesterday for Ron.


“As a lot of you know he lost his voice two weeks ago. Well, it never got better after antibiotics. Then his neck started swelling and closed so they took him to Ruby (Memorial Hospital in Morgantown) and they were wonderful.


“They kept him overnight to watch his breathing. They did find a growth on his R vocal cord, so they will bring him back next week and give him a biopsy. They said it could be cancer and probably is.


“He will get to come home this morning till they call next week.


“So once again Tom & I are asking for your wonderful prayers again. The good thing is we don't have to go to Pittsburgh. Ruby handles the VA surgeries. Thank God.


“I promise I will you keep you updated and Tom will too one day at a time. We love you all.”

 
Susan and Ron’s son, Tommy Sanders, is a WVU computer engineering graduate.


Ron is a Vietnam veteran.
Susan was elected the Town Council this year. She also is chairman of Monongah’s Christmas Lights Committee, which had raised money that put 26 street lights in the town for every holiday season.

Friday, June 28, 2019


Claude Maxwell Ash, Class of 1953, passed away Wednesday, June 26. His widow is Joanne Davis Ash, Class of 1954.

Max retired from Sho-Me Power company as an electronics foreman. He played baseball for Monongah High.

Joanne was on the yearbook and newspaper staffs, in the band and in the minstrel at Monongah High.

Max’s brother, Frank Ash, Class of 1965, is a retired Consol coal miner who lives in Barrackville with wife Carol Ann Lake Ash.

Responding to my request for information and photos, Frank replied:

Max was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. He was a radar technician. He was hired by Sho-Me power company as an electronics foreman.

“He and Joanne Davis Ash raised two children, Steve and Shellie. They have two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.”

The family photos in the montage were provided by Frank Ash.

Reva McDougal Ash, Class of 1950, of Marietta, Ohio, is not listed in the obituary. Reva’s husband is deceased.

Max’s obituary:

Claude "Max" Ash

Claude Maxwell Ash, Marshfield, was born in Webster County, West Virginia on July 8, 1935, to the late Claude and Marie Ash. He departed this life on June 26, 2019 at Cox Medical Center at the age of 83.

Max worked at Sho-Me Power for many years before retiring from there. He had served in the United States Air Force as a radar technician and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Marshfield.

Preceding him in death were his parents, his son Steve, and two brothers, Leon Ash and Ken Ash.

He is survived by his wife of 64 1/2 years-Joanne, daughter Shellie Jones, granddaughters Amanda Smith-Willcock and Crystal Robinson, great-grandchildren Asher and Averi Willcock and Isaac Klotz.

Also surviving Max are his brothers Ed (Carol) Ash of Shinnston, WV, Leona (William) Mello of Parkman, Ohio, Frank (Carol) Ash of Barrackville, WV, and sister-in-law Carol (Ken) Ash of Sandusky, Ohio. Also surviving are many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 29, 2019 at First Baptist Church, Marshfield, with interment following in Marshfield Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6-7 p.m., Friday, June 28, 2019 at Fraker Funeral Home, Inc.

Memorial contributions may be made to Convoy of Hope or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and left in care of Fraker Funeral Home, P.O. Box 85, Marshfield, MO 65706.

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Marbury funeral Saturday

The funeral for Kerry Marbury, the greatest athlete in Monongah High history, will be Saturday, June 29.

Kerry Lee Marbury
The former Fairmont State professor passed away Sunday, June 23.

Kerry’s obituary:

Kerry Lee Marbury, 67, of Fairmont, passed away at his home on Sunday, June 23, 2019. He was born in Fairmont on March 21, 1952, a son of the late Arthur Laster and Lizella Hines Marbury Lewis.

He graduated from Monongah High School and later attended Fairmont State University where he earned his BS in 1990, and later earned his Masters from WVU in 1991; he became a professor of Humanities and Race, Class, and Gender at Fairmont State University, as well as an FSU Safety Director.

Kerry was an immensely talented athlete, earning such accolades as: All-State 1968 & 1969, All-American 1969, West Virginia Back of the Year in 1969, and ranked in the top 100 players in the U.S. in 1969. He lettered in football for four years, track for four years, and basketball for two years; he played football at WVU from 1971-1972, and was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 1976, but eventually left football by the age of 24.

Despite his talent and education, Kerry will be remembered most of all for his love of family, friends, neighbors, and laughter.

Kerry is survived by his wife, Deborah (Freeman) Marbury, of Clarksburg; daughter, Trevia Holland and husband Manual, of Fairmont; brothers: Marcus Lewis, of Carolina, Willie Marbury Sr., of Michigan, and Charles Keith and wife Dorothy, of Michigan; sister, Lydia Robinson, of Michigan; grandchildren: Cameron Marbury and girlfriend Valeri Barnett, and Naythan Holland, all of Fairmont; great-granddaughter, Kyonna Marbury; aunts: Juanita Arnold, of Fairmont, Norma Jean Thompson, of Fairmont, Nellie Hines, of Carolina, and Wilma Reeves, of South Carolina; uncle: Chester Hines, of North Carolina; mentor: Dr. Paul Edwards, whom Kerry lovingly called “Dad”; as well as many loving nieces, nephews, friends, and neighbors.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brother, James Marbury, and sister, Toni Drake.

Family and friends are welcome to call at Calvary Temple Assembly of God, 28 Calvary Lane, Fairmont, WV 26554 on Saturday, June 29, 2019, from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., with services starting at 1:00 p.m. at the church, with Pastor Tim Shuttlesworth officiating. Interment will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery.

 

Tuesday, June 25, 2019


Ted Nagel, Class of 1954, and his sister, Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949, are Monongah High alumni with July birthdays. Jean, born July 16, lives in Fairmont. Ted, born July 14, moved to Roanoke, Virginia in 1979 and was a snowbird to Micco, Florida for 12 years.
 
Brother Marty Nagel, Class of 1952, is at Wayside Farm Nursing Home in Peninsula, Ohio, near Akron, and “doing well,” Ted reports.
 
Jean is living with her daughter, Jean Marie Dotson, in Fairmont. Jean and her late husband owned C.V. News in Fairmont for decades.
 
Ted lived in Vinton, Virginia till his wife, Faye, passed away. Ted has had reunions with Tom Dean, Class of 1949, who at the time lived in Virginia, in Alta Vista, before moving back to North Carolina; and Deloris Vingle Olender, Class of 1951, in Florida.
 

Jeanie gave me my first boy/girl kiss, on the goggles atop my aviator cap, when we were barely teenagers, on the Camden Avenue sidewalk across the street from Carlot’s Grill. Her judgment improved in later years.

Jeanie also took one for the guy she had a crush on when the late Junior Domico, who later became the Fairmont funeral home mogul, insulted me, as Jeanie saw it. In the ensuing scuffle, Junior drove a stick through Jeanie’s leg. I didn’t witness it and didn’t learn about till decades later.

Jeanie is one smart cookie. The nuns at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Monongah double-promoted her, which is why she is a 1949 MHS grad and I’m Class of 1950. My mother, in her wisdom, refused to let the good Sisters double-promote me, too, because she saw how immature I was. Wise move. I was still too immature when I did graduate from Monongah High at the age of 16.

I was the second-smartest student in my class when Jean was in it. When she got double-promoted to the next class, I became the smarest in my class by default.
 
Mother of the Nagel threesome is the late Helen Soyer Nagel, Class of 1925, whose class included Esther Koon Garrett, East Monongah Grade School teacher by 1931.  
 

Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960, who lives in Lisbon, Ohio, with husband Dan Fleming, was born on July 10. Tom Fleming, Sr. also was in the Class of 1960.
 
Mary was the drum majorette at Monongah High and president of the student council. In Lisbon she plays pickleball, which is a combination of tennis and badminton played on a tennis court and very popular in retirement communities in Florida, where Mary and Dan winterized in Venice.
 
David Gowers, Class of 1971, born July 5, is a Licensed Master Social Worker in Martinsburg. Teresa Bowers is a clinical social worker in Martinsburg. David is a brother-in-law of Monongah High grad Marie B. Huey, a retired cook living in Worthington who grew up in Four States.
 
Catherine Reckart Boyce and Robin Huffman Satterfield, both Class of 1973, were best friends through elementary school and Monongah High. They even celebrate their birthdays only one day apart in July, Catherine on the 20th and Robin on the 21st.
 
Robin lives in Fairmont after spending 40 years in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Catherine lives on Willow Road near St. Barbara Memorial Nursing Home in Monongah. 
Debbie Moore O’Dell, Class of 1969, was born July 16 and lives in the Coons Run community. Debbie’s parents were Vera Pearl Moore and Bill Moore.

Debbie worked at both Urban’s Grocery Store in Monongah and the Dairy Kone (1968-69), which Amelia Shenasky Zentz and husband Bruce Zentz built in 1968.

Debbie’s sister, Janet Moore Frazier, Class of 1972, also worked at the Dairy Kone, which provided spending money for a lot of Monongah High students over the years.


If your name is not on this list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com  with your full name, including maiden name, your birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown.
 

July


1 – Roger Fisher, Monongah High grad

3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971

5 – David Gowers, Class of 1971

5 – Bill Meredith, Class of 1957

7 – Alex Fazio Huff, North Marion 2005 grad

10 – Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960

14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954

14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978
16 -- Debbie Moore O'Dell, Class of 1969 

18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968

19 – Arlene Martha Edwards Costelac, Class of 1958

20 – Catherine Reckart Boyce, Class of 1973

21 – Robin Huffman Satterfield, Class of 1973 

16 – Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949

19 – Jane Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

29 – Pete Basagic, Class of 1972

 

August


1 – Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979

5 – Robert Tennant, Class of 1971

6 – Wauneda Evans, Patty DeMary Evans’ mother-in-law

7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate

8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964

9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979

15 – David Kelly, 1980 North Marion grad after 11 years at Thoburn & Monongah High

16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of 1966

17 – Twins Earnest Hayes & Chester Hayes, both Class of 1965

18 – Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960

18 – John Fazio, Class of 1970

19 – Greg Postlethwait, Class of 1964

19 – Barbra Eller-Hanning, Monongah grad

20 – Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of 1966

20 – Connie Warash, Class of 1975

21 – Robert Howard Edwards, Class of 1959

24 – Sean Patrick Fazio, 2015 North Marion grad

29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950

30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of 1978

30 – David Harbert of Idamay, Farmington grad

 

September


 

1 – Claude Domico, Jr., Class of 1959

3 – Debra June Knight, Class of 1973

6 – Dave Domico of Monongah, Fairmont West grad married to Andrea Justice Domico

7 – Phillis Tarley, North Marion grad from Idamay living in Fairmont

8 – Fred Moorehead, Class of 1964 

8 – Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955

13 – Karen Manzo Tennant, Class of 1974

14 – Jim Shaver, Class of 1954

15 – Bettie Hensley Lowther, Class of 1948

17 – Patti DeMary Evans, Class of 1972

20 – Greg Patrick, Class of 1970

23 – Sally Wood Tarley, Class of 1959

24 – Joe Fazio, Class of 1974

25 – Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of 1948

25 – Jim Davis, Class of 1964

26 – Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class of 1948

27 -- Bonita Lavencheck Waybright, Class of 1968

29 – Dietta Harden Goush, Class of 1959

29 – Pamm Yanero Bragg, Class of 1969

 

October


 

2 – Stanley H. Vance, Class of 1964

7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975

8 – Susan Staron Sanders, Class of 1971

8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class of 1973

11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971

12 – Brenda Manzo, wife of Danny Manzo, Class of 1957

14 – John Prunty, Class of 1949

20 – Leona “Duckles” Davis Schooley, Class of 1953

20 – Richard Edwards, Class of 1978

21 – Ken Slovekosky, Gilmer County High Class of 1976.

22 – Mike Uram, 1981 North Marion graduate

 
 

25 -- Rachel Vivian Stalnaker Sloan, Class of 1962.

26 – Lori Hawkins Ice, Fairmont East graduate living in Carolina

29 – Robert Boydoh, Class of 1956

31 – Patty Steele McCombs, Fairmont East graduate who lives in Monongah

31 – Helen McDougal Mudry, Monongah High grad

 

 

November


1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949

4 – Roger Harbert, Class of 1960

5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950

8 – Diana Pishner Walker

10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946

10 – Anthony Pulice, Jr., Class of 1945

13 – Elwood Toll, Class of 1951

14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of 1955

17 – John Todd Moats, North Marion Class of 1985

20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950               

20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of 1950

22 – Mike Ahouse, Class of 1968

23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982

25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of 1955

27 – Roy Foster, Class of 1945

28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961

29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall Michalski’s son

 

December


2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion graduate

2 -- Mareia Wilmouth McDougal, Class of 1964

3 – Goldie Mae Martin, Class of 1964

4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961

4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion graduate

5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951

5 – Frances Victor Eates, Farmington grad, wife of Larry Dan Eates, Class of 1970

6 – Goldie Basagic Huffman, Class of 1974

8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971

10 – Richard Weaver, Class of 1957

11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor, Class of 1966

13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of 1948

14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974

16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of 1964

16 – Henry Moore, husband of Beth Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

16 – Paula Rossi Wiley, Class of 1976

18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960

20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975

22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of 1951

23 – Jim Fullen

25 – Charles Melton, Class of 1973

25 – Chris Shamrock Henning

27 – John Yokay III, son of John Yokay, Class of 1953

29 --  Dolores Edwards, Class of 1955

30 – Deborah Prunty Poluck, Class of 1973

 

January

6 – Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of 1940
13 – Beatrice Salisbury Mills, Class of 1951
17 – Susan Colaneri Monell, Class of 1949
18 – Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell, Class of 1951
?? – Marie Bee Zwiegel, Class of 1951
18 – Bertha Pazdric Sullivan, Class of 1954
18 – Greg Vandetta, Monongah mayor, husband of Debbie Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973
19 – Joe Martin, Class of 1957
19 – Joann Thompson, Class of 1962 
22 – Jo-Jo DeMary of Monongah, who lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is married to Yvonne King DeMary
24 – Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974
24 – Mark “Hooch” Aldridge, Class of 1973
29 – Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968
 

February

1 – Debra Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973
2 – Sylvia Edwards, Monongah grad living in Idamay
3 – Debbie Weaver Hurley, Monongah grad living in Monongah with husband Milton Hurley
3 – Rebecca Urish Anderson, Class of 1971
8 – Tom Fleming, Monongah grad living in Bridgeport
9 – Bob Nichols, Class of 1964
10 – Bonnie Nicholson Moats, Class of 1960
11—Linda Renay Hess Postlethwait, Class of 1968
15 – Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975
17 – Larry “Danny” Eates, Class of 1970
18 – Mark Tarley, North Marion grad
20 – Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of 1960
21 – Eva Huey Jarvis, Class of 1975
24 – Mary Kelly, Monongah & North Marion
29 – Betty Sikinow Cunningham, Class of 1954

 

March

5 – Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963
5 -- Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971
6 – Karen Fitzwater Pausch, Class of 1961
9 – Richie Basagic, Class of 1975 
9 – Brian Evans, Monongah graduate married to Patty DeMary Evans
15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis
15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods, Class of 1952
18 – Nancy Carol Davidson Kantura, Class of 1955
20 – Barbara Melton Earl, Class of 1978
22 – David Haines, Class of 1964
25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959
25 -- David Edwards, Class of 1976.
25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah graduate
28 – Josephine Popovich Jones, Class of 1952

 

April

 
4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of 1954
5 – Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963
9 – Paula “P.J.” Hickman, North Marion 1983
11 – Leo Kubiet, Class of 1942
12 – Linda Sawyer Duckworth, Class of 1966
14 – Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of 1958
15 – Judy Stewart Monell Razook, Class of 1959
16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class of 1961 
18 – Aaron Justice, Jr., Class of 1972
30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse, Class of 1954

 

May

4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers, Class of 1964
5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950
5 – Louis Poluck, Class of 1973
6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956
12 – Arlene Kitchin, wife of Joe Martin, Class of 1957
14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1953
14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957
14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis, Class of 1957
17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of 1970
17 – Lorraine Hulderman, Class of 1968
20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class of 1955
21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of 1948
22 – Toni Pflock Hennis, Class of 1955
27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971
28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972
29 – John Woods, Class of 1957
29 – Scott Rogers, Class of 1973
30 – Dave Westfall, Class of 1948 
 

June

1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973
3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad from Monongah; married to Angela
5 – Ann “Peaches” DeMary
8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944
8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of 1970
13 – John Melton, Class of 1975
13 – C.L. “Roy” Parker II, North Marion Class of 1982
13 – Rick Morrison, son of Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968 
14 – Pamela Morrison Bombardiere, Class of 1967
14 – Regina Levelle Humphrey, Class of 1973
14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of 1973
17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of 1979
20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant, Class of 1953
22 – Prudence Deane Tetrick Funk, Class of 1960.
23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949
23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class of 1960
23 – Ron Manzo, Class of 1969
23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion grad
 

Sunday, June 23, 2019


Kerry Marbury, probably the greatest athlete in Monongah High’s glorious history, passed away.

The Carolina comet was a blur with the football for Monongah on the 1968 and 1969 Lions state football championship teams, in 1968 with Alabama football coach Nick “Brother” Saban, who has six national college titles in his resume, and the late Tom Hulderman.

Kerry was a running back who scored 144 points and gained more than 6,000 yards for Monongah High before advancing to WVU, turning down colleges all over the country seeking his talents.

His speed won him state track titles, too, with the most points by any individual in his junior and senior years. Kerry set records in the 100- and 220-yard dashes his senior year. He also set records in the 440-yard relay his sophomore year and 880-yard relay his senior year.  Kerry had an all-time 100-yard dash best of 9.7 seconds under legendary Lions track coach Joe Ross.

He won four letters in football, four in track and two in basketball.

Kerry began his football career under the legendary Nick Saban, Sr., Brother’s father, in Pop Warner football in Marion County.

Brother said:

"I always say that the first championship that we won in 1968 means as much as any national championship or any other championship that we ever won. And that's because of the players on the team that that all was possible."

Monongah beat Paden City in Fairmont’s East-West Stadium on a field that was so muddy that quarterback Brother threw only three passes.

Monongah thrashed Fairmont East, 39-7; Morgantown University High, 39-0; Mannington 58-7; Clay-Battelle, 53-19; Rivesville, 52-7; Shinnston, 47-13, with Kerry gaining 165 yards on 10 carries; then unbeaten Class AAA Bridgeport, 40-0; and, to end the regular season, Monongah beat Farmington, Masontown and Fairview by a combined 136-0. The Lions averaged 46.4 points per game on offense and 4.6 points per game on defense -- both high-water marks in their class.

At WVU, his freshman team coach Donnie Young said:

"I always felt that Kerry had more natural God-given ability than any other running back at West Virginia University." Young personally witnessed the school's top five all-time runners Amos Zereoue, Avon Cobourne, Artie Owens, Robert Walker and Robert Alexander.

As a sophomore, Kerry had 890 yards, only 4 short of the sophomore record set by Garrett Ford in 1965, even though Kerry missed 3½ games. He also was on WVU track's 440-yard relay team.

For a great video of Brother and Kerry tearing up the opposing defenses in 1968 and (for Kerry) 1969, both state championship years for Monongah High, go to https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=a5kjN1e_i4s&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHkgFrDm8CwA%26feature%3Dshare